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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Magic Marmalade 31st Jan 2022		Vinyl Album Various Artists - American Top 40 (1983)	Have to say I'm a little confused by this side / track arrangement. ...Are the tracks listed under each green "track" header part of the same track - as in a medley - or are they separate tracks, and the green headers not needed? Some guidance as to what's going on here is required.
Magic Marmalade 9th Jan 2022		Vinyl Album John Williams - Raiders Of The Lost Ark (2021)	Shouldn't this be in 12" Singles world?
Magic Marmalade 7th Jan 2022		Vinyl Album Linda Ronstadt - Greatest Hits (1976)	AS far as the credit for track B1 on all of these Greatest Hits issues go, as I understand it, The Stone Poneys were the band she was a part of... rather than: Linda Ronstadt And The Stone Poneys... (I stand to be corrected, of course) ...And it should probably follow, that as this is an assemblage of original recordings, that track was done first as the Stone Poneys. It's inclusion here as Linda Ronstadt With The Stone Poneys is only to assure us of the fact that some other random band that doesn't include her has made it's way on to this issue. So it seems to me that leaving them purely as The Stone Poneys is correct? What's the feeling on this one generally?
Magic Marmalade 30th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Curved Air - Curved Air Second Album (1971)	Popped in three charity shops today, whilst out to the abatoir for my booster jab... ... Found this for 4 quid, and got a puzzle into the bargain! ....... Figuring out how to correctly fold this into the gatefold so it shows all the coloured quarter circles in the correct order kept me occupied for at least half an hour!
Magic Marmalade 23rd Dec 2021		Vinyl Album King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - KG (Explorations Into Microtonal Tuning Vol. 2) (2020)	I think we're going to have to have a think about how to handle these coloured etc. vinyl variations that carry slightly different barcodes, or none at all. I'll raise the issue in the ether (possibly after crimbo) so that we have a firm idea / policy of what to do with them. But at the moment, this entry is fine as it is :)
Magic Marmalade 15th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Catherine McKinnon - Christmas Album (1966)	I think a new entry needs to be made for these images. ...Original entry made with different details by different member. (Original entry details may be accurate for different issue)
Magic Marmalade 15th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Black Sun - Disco Heat (1978)	This being apparently Disco, and having only one track per side... isn't this a 12" single, as opposed to an album?
Magic Marmalade 14th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Nat "King" Cole Trio - King Cole Trio Vol. 1 (1950)	This artist name variation is now a part of the main discography, and a couple more links to that have been placed in each of the main variations.
Magic Marmalade 13th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Nat King Cole - The Magic Of Christmas (1960)	Oh bugger! ... Sorry about that Gimme, thought I'd got em all (Pokemon-ed em?). If another mod doesn't fix it in the meantime, I'll do it tomorrow when I'm on the big machine.
Magic Marmalade 13th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers - The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon (1973)	From a correction request: "Although the original issue of this disc was issued in December 1956, Roulette did monaurally reissue this Teenagers disc in 1961, but this particular pressing of which all the tunes were electronically enhanced for stereo, was NOT issued until 1973. If you look closely under the caption "Gee hi-fidelity GLP-701", one will notice that stereo electronically enhanced is present. By means of the original issue no indication of stereo appears neither on the front nor reverse jacket nor neither the a or b sides due to the fact that stereo was unavailable at the time of this initial issue. Another important thing is that near the bottom of the initial reverse jacket, the address of the GEE record company appears, whereas GEE, a subdivision of Roulette will appear."
Magic Marmalade 13th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Nat King Cole - The Magic Of Christmas (1960)	I have updated pseudonyms for Nat King Cole, and refreshed his vinyl album discographies. All collaborations and involvements now appear under his main listing: Nat "King" Cole, and there is already a link to to that page from this version of his name (without quotation marks).
Magic Marmalade 12th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Love - Forever Changes (2015)	How about the barcode russh?
Magic Marmalade 10th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Chet Atkins - Down Home (1962)	Found a copy of this yesterday when I was supposed to be out Christmas shopping (ahem)... ...Been circling Chet Atkins for a while, but never had an excuse to get into him until this (there's lots about) ...But this being a 1962 Stereo, I thought, well, that's not going to come around too often, and stereo for his sort of time must be something of a rarity... and it was 20p! :) Mine has the older, sharp / square cornered flip-backs on the sleeve.
Magic Marmalade 9th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" Original Soundtrack Recording (1970)	Going to keep the original label images here, as they are larger, and offer more detail and focus for reading purposes... But I'll also keep the others here for their more accurate colour representation.
Magic Marmalade 8th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Françoise Hardy / Udo Jürgens - Francoise Hardy / Udo Jürgens (1967)	Link it Whitewale. ...Just make reference to the differences in each entry.
Magic Marmalade 7th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Cornelis Vreeswijk - Cornelis Sjunger Taube (1969)	Goodness Gracious! ...Have I just put my foot in it Sundius? ......Is that you? >If so, I humbly apologise, and retract my statement... it is a beautiful picture which I now want for my wall! :D<
Magic Marmalade 7th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Naz Nomad And The Nightmares - Give Daddy The Knife Cindy (1984)	Why are the track positions of tracks B3, and B4 transposed on other set of labels? Is one a mis-press / mis-print?
Magic Marmalade 7th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat (1971)	I have to admit to being one of those people who thought Morning Has Broken was a traditional / older song, re-arranged by Cat Stevens - Words here credit is given to someone else. (I think because they used to make us sing it at school, like a hymn in assembly :) Anyone clarify? And should composer credits be adjusted because of it? (It doesn't seem that clear to me as to the meaning of the credits given)
Magic Marmalade 5th Dec 2021		Vinyl Album Cornelis Vreeswijk - Cornelis Sjunger Taube (1969)	A new contender for worst album cover?!!! :D
Magic Marmalade 28th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Various Artists - Teaterbåten (1973)	Are: Sven-Erik Wikström, Hasse Funck, Kjerstin Dellert, Erik Saedén ...The artist for this, or the composers?
Magic Marmalade 26th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Jimi Hendrix Experience - Paris 67 (2021)	Is this blue vinyl or black?
Magic Marmalade 17th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Petula Clark - Don't Give Up · American Boys (1968)	Member mister_tmg made the original entry, so makes me hesitate about changing the song at B1, in case he has a copy with the other title on it, by virtue some odd circumstance. ...Or maybe yours is the anomaly mike?
Magic Marmalade 17th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Goblin - Suspiria (2000)	Odd cover. The image with the title of the film (front cover?) also has the barcode and other details, so makes me think "Back cover" too ??? The cover image over all is a continuous one from "front" to "back", so which is which?
Magic Marmalade 15th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Nana Mouskouri - British Concert (1972)	I've linked the other (later?) one below. They seem different.
Magic Marmalade 14th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Jimmy Page - Outrider (1988)	Review Great big monster music, for those who fancy an extra dose of Led Zepp. ...Well, in part. The first song is uncanny like AC/DC, and John Miles does an incredible impression of one of their tunes, with only a light flavouring of Jimmy Page / Zepp guitar work. The next two are more bona fide Zepp style tracks, and big and thumpy and screechy wailing rock affairs (but again, with Miles' AC /DC style vocal, until the man himself arrives: For Robert Plant himself turns up for vocal duties on The Only One... but oddly, this is less convincing Zepp tune... more llke latter day Zeppelin, when they began to wane a little. And the A side concludes with a Zeppy instrumental workout. The B-side however, employs the vocals of Chris Farlow, and the style of the music is more gritty, dirty Blues, both slower, and grimier than the A-side. All of which makes this like two halves of different albums welded together: A-Side, a hard and fast AC/DC / Zeppelin side, and the B-side a more straight up Blues album. ...Probably doesn't give you enough of either to be honest, and the contrast a little too different. Oh, and "Blues Anthem" is anything but, if you ask me, it sounds more like a pipe and slippers sing-a-long... almost worthy of a Eurovision entry from back in the day! (nice tune though) Odd. But, this being one of those Alsdorf pressed marvels, the sonics are amazing throughout... ...It sounds enormous, huge and menacing, with big widescreen effect, and all with real power and grunt, as well as astonishing clarity. Nice for a little extra Zepp fix in a couple of places, and maybe almost half a decent blues album. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Magic Marmalade 14th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album The Rumour - Purity Of Essence (1980)	Review First off, let's talk about that fantastically ugly cover... ...If you were to judge this particular album by it's cover, you might well wonder what on earth the music is like inside; Perhaps concluding it was some kind of late sixties hangover Victorian accordion based psych twizzling. But you'd be quite some distance off the mark. ...As, despite the mega-paisley appearance, this is more punk-ish new wave -ish, pub-lite rock, which has more in common with a range of other band's music that was going on at the time... (And, for some of whom, these guys were not coincidentally, the session musicians) ... There's a strong whiff of the Cars first album, The Jam, Wilko Johnson, Elvis Costello and an assortment of variious New Wave-ery going on. I can't say I was that taken with the "Max" album previous, that I have (and is seemingly ubiquitous in record crates), as that was a little too much of lean toward the pub rock thing running parallel to the punk scene... ...But this is a much more bouncy, upbeat, tuneful, and melodic affair... lot's of great songs and tunes to get you nodding along. The music is great, and the harmonies and backing vocals are all top notch, but the problem is really two things here: (other than the cover! :) Firstly, there's no convincing lead vocal on any of the tracks... they just don't have the lead vocalist required to push this all up a level. Not bad, just a bit flat and, well, sounding like a band member doing a run through of the vocal until the real vocalist arrives. ...And secondly, that flatness is a little in evidence in the music itself. Noticeable the more so, because the musical styles they are approximating, or emulating that I mentioned earlier, has all that, and this suffers by way of contrast... doesn't have the punch, and snap, and distinctiveness of those others... and bouncing a little ineffectually off all their respective musical walls, without committing too strongly to one, in order to leave dent. This is really evident on the track (which is a good one, but could have been better, if there was more commitment): Writing In The Water, which is very strongly flavoured with The Police, especially, Message In A Bottle... they just can't compete with that kind of delivery. But there's a couple of songs where they do elevate the whole thing (mostly due to those harmonies), like Tula, I Don't Want The Night To End, and Houston., but the rest is, a nice, jolly bounce, but which does seem to run a little out of steam towards the end, but only a little... and maybe gets a little more introspective too. The other noteworthy track is Pyramids, which, while in terms of the song itself, is probably one of the weaker ones, but about two thirds of the way through bends with wailing, otherworldly guitar effects into a psych mind popper of a droning noise-fest - far out! And to conclude the weirdness, and get back to that cover, it's a top-loader, with the spine text on all three other sides, left, right, and bottom. Vinyl and pressing is nice though. I think this will punch through my criticisms over time though, as it has all the hallmarks of a "Grower", that will just seep into me, by degrees, through the strength of the tunes. It's also cheaply bought, so well worth a couple of coins of anyone's money. [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Magic Marmalade 10th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome (1964)	If you make the stereo entry scratchy, with appropriate details, and maybe add it as "linked release", then this can be adjusted to 'mono LP".
Magic Marmalade 8th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Pat Boone - Hymns We Love (1957)	Are we sure this should be listed as a mono LP? ...It might be mono, but the date suggests it's a little early for a stereo equivalent to be available too... and site guidelines ask only to define an album as mono if a stereo was also issued, and so requires the distinction. Stereo was 58, wasn't it?
Magic Marmalade 5th Nov 2021		Vinyl Album John Martyn - One World (1977)	Small Hours is sublime.... quite possibly capable of inducing a trance like, out of body experience in the listener :)
Magic Marmalade 2nd Nov 2021		Vinyl Album Trees - On The Shore (1970)	Info regarding this placed in notes.

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